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The SAN PEDRO - TRI ART Festival is a free family event on September 27-28 featuring dance, music and crafts in Ports O'Call Village on the waterfront. The festival is still seeking dance company submissions. Details below!

Julien's Auctions, the world's premier entertainment and music memorabilia auction house, has announced Music Icons 2014 to be held today, Friday, May 16, 2014 and Saturday, May 17, 2014 at the Hard Rock Cafe New York located at 1501 Broadway in Times Square, Fifty years ago this year, a British rock band called The Beatles gave its first American TV performance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and music history was made.

One of the greatest moments in the history of show business happened at 1:20 PM, on February 7th, 1964, when Pan Am Yankee Clipper Flight number 101 carrying four British musicians landed at New York's Idlewild Airport. Within 48 hours the Beatles were performing on the Ed Sullivan Show overwhelming 73 million viewers.

Julien's Auctions, the world's premier entertainment and music memorabilia auction house, has announced Music Icons 2014 to be held Friday, May 16, 2014 and Saturday, May 17, 2014 at the Hard Rock Cafe New York located at 1501 Broadway in Times Square

Ron McNeil distinctly remembers the first time he heard bandmate Ardy Sarraf sing.

One of the greatest moments in the history of show business happened at 1:20 PM, on February 7th, 1964, when Pan Am Yankee Clipper Flight number 101 carrying four British musicians landed at New York's Idlewild Airport. Within 48 hours the Beatles were performing on the Ed Sullivan Show overwhelming 73 million viewers.

Join us at the Bickford Theatre to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the debut of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. The Morris Museum is pleased to announce that the National Touring Beatles Stage Show will perform Beatlemania Again! on Friday, February 28 at 8:00pm.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents Canadian band, The Musical Box, at the Byham Theater in Pittsburgh, PA on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. The Musical Box will perform their exclusive and meticulously restaged Genesis' 1973 concert tour, Selling England by the Pound. Ticket prices start at $39.25. For information, visit www.TrustArts.org, call (412) 456-6666, or in person: Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue. This event is part of the Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents series.

Peter Gabriel-era Genesis's Selling England By The Pound will be recreated by Musical Box at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday, November 21

The Laguna Playhouse Executive and Artistic Directors, Karen Wood and Ann E. Wareham present its first special bonus offering of their 2013 season, BRITISHMANIA, a Beatles Tribute concert. 'We are about to rock out our Summer with BRITISHMANIA, one of the best Beatles tribute bands around,' offers Wood. 'How amazing to hear 35 Beatles classics performed authentically in just about two hours! Our audiences and Beatles fans will be in heaven,' adds Wareham. BRITISHMANIA will begin performances tonight, August 13 and run through Sunday, August 25, 2013 at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach.

Full Moon Fever is the best Tom Petty tribute band there is, and they're coming to Aurora's RiverEdge Park, the new and improved home for the city's long popular Downtown Alive! summer concert series, Friday, August 23 at 8 p.m.

The Laguna Playhouse Executive and Artistic Directors, Karen Wood and Ann E. Wareham present its first special bonus offering of their 2013 season, BRITISHMANIA, a Beatles Tribute concert. 'We are about to rock out our Summer with BRITISHMANIA, one of the best Beatles tribute bands around,' offers Wood. 'How amazing to hear 35 Beatles classics performed authentically in just about two hours! Our audiences and Beatles fans will be in heaven,' adds Wareham. BRITISHMANIA will begin performances on Tuesday, August 13 and run through Sunday, August 25, 2013 at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach.

Easter Weekend in Miami gets underway with BunnyPalooza 2013 at Miami Seaquarium, which hops onto the scene from Friday, March 29 th to Easter Sunday, March 31 st, with the largest parade in the event's nearly 15 year history. Guests will enjoy continuous Easter Egg Hunts throughout the day, and five acres of adrenaline pumping fun with bounce houses, 'Giant Fun Slide,' Rock Climbing Wall, plus many prizes and surprises. A discount offering an $8 off admission to BunnyPalooza is available with a receipt or coupon from Publix Supermarket.

More than 130 guitars-owned by greats including Roy Rogers, Charlie Christian, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Woody Guthrie, Buddy Holly, Les Paul and others-will be displayed together for the first time ever, when Guitars! Roundups to Rockers, presented by Eli Lilly & Company, opens at The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art on Saturday, March 9. The exhibit explores the Western connections of guitars and artists who have provided the soundtrack for America. The experience, including interactive content, is guaranteed to appeal to guitar gearheads, musicians and everyday music lovers of genres from Western swing to wailing rock, thrashing punk to bouncing jazz.

Britishmania is known for 'not repeating the same EXACT show' so the fans WILL see and hear some DIFFERENT classics!

Britishmania is known for 'not repeating the same EXACT show' so the fans WILL see and hear some DIFFERENT classics!

Britishmania is known for 'not repeating the same EXACT show' so the fans WILL see and hear some DIFFERENT classics!

Britishmania is known for 'not repeating the same EXACT show' so the fans WILL see and hear some DIFFERENT classics!

PAUL COLLINS (one of the originators of the high-energy sound known as Power Pop and co-founder of THE NERVES, THE BREAKAWAYS and THE BEAT) will be kicking off a Midwest tour on February 18th in Milwaukee with the Lafayette, IN-based garage-pop rockers THE HALF RATS, just prior to PAUL COLLINS BEAT tour of Japan and Australia in March and April.